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Chapter 663: Everyone loves money

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    Liu Jin was in a good mood. He followed Emperor Hongzhi out to see the northern cement kilometer under construction. The total amount of treasury taxes and silver for the latest January has been calculated.

    In all parts of the Ming Dynasty, including overseas places, the Municipal Shipping Department and the tax bureau collected a total of 8.21 million taels of tax money in January of the 14th year of Hongzhi. This number was even larger than initially estimated, and it also made the government and the opposition  They couldn't help being shocked.

    Who would have thought that Ming Dynasty would be so wealthy, and the tax money collected in just one month was more than the tax money received in the previous year. This is simply incredible.

    Although everyone knows very well in their hearts that there was no commercial tax at all in the past, they also all know that if the imperial court actually levies commercial tax, the revenue of the treasury will definitely increase significantly.

    But no one expected that more than 8 million taels of tax money would be received in just one month, which is a very huge amount.

    After calculation, the tax revenue for next year will be nearly 10 million taels.

    Such a huge financial revenue made everyone from Emperor Hongzhi to ordinary officials couldn't help but get excited.

    Without it, it¡¯s easy to do things if you have money.

    Emperor Hongzhi wanted to do many things, such as easing corvee and reducing taxes, abolishing capitation tax, reducing land tax, etc. These were all measures that could truly benefit the people at the bottom, and he had always wanted to implement them before.

    It¡¯s just that the court also needs money to operate. The previous tax money and taxes on grain, cloth and other places were barely enough to maintain the operation of the court.

    It is almost impossible to exempt the population tax, reduce or reduce the land tax and other places.

    In addition, Emperor Hongzhi has always wanted to build a strong Ming army, and now he has got his wish. The military power has been taken back to himself, and military expenses are also funded from his own internal funds.

    The ruling and opposition parties also support the construction of a strong Ming army. The Ming Navy and the Ming Royal Naval Academy, which are currently being planned and constructed, have received support from both the ruling and opposition parties.

    Because everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty is no longer the Ming Dynasty a few years ago. It not only needs a strong army, but also a strong navy to protect the interests of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time open up more markets and financial avenues.

    In addition, disasters often occur in several northern provinces. In the four provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, and Shandong, locusts, droughts, and floods occur almost every year, and famines occur every year. At the same time, on both sides of the Yellow River, summer is not  At that time, we had to worry about the Yellow River bursting its banks.

    This has almost become a problem for Daming.

    Therefore, Emperor Hongzhi also planned to not only move the population of these places as far as possible, but also to Liaodong, overseas Nanyang, or to the Golden Continent, grasslands, or even Australia in the future, etc.

    In short, the population in these places needs to move out on a large scale to reduce the contradiction between man and land in these places. In this way, even if there is any famine, it will not be too severe.

    Immigration requires a very large amount of money, and all of this requires money.

    Unless you plan to be tough on immigration regardless of the life and death of ordinary people.

    ?Obviously, Emperor Hongzhi is not. He loves his people like his own children and is a good emperor.

    Emperor Hongzhi made proper arrangements for the first batch of 300,000 people to go to Liaodong. Even though they migrated there in winter, no one froze or starved to death on the long journey.

    After arriving in Liaodong, accommodation and meals were carefully arranged, all of which cost money.

    It is also something that I couldn't do before I could do it. Now I have silver and can do it all.

    ¡°There is also the management of the Yellow River, the construction of dams on both sides of the Yellow River, and the construction of reservoirs, etc. These are all big projects that require a lot of money to be poured into it.

    Now that not only cement is available, but the court also has money, everything can be done and these things can be done.

    This will make the Ming Dynasty more stable. From now on, the north will no longer have to worry about any disasters.

    This is what Emperor Hongzhi wants to do.

    After more than ten years on the throne, Emperor Hongzhi feels that from now on, he can really make a difference. As for before, he was just doing light corvee and paying little tax, working diligently and caring for the people, but it is difficult to truly serve this country and this land.  Land does something practical.

    No matter how much you love the people and how diligent you are, what will happen?

    ¡°In the final analysis, we still haven¡¯t done many major things for this country that will truly benefit future generations.

    So Emperor Hongzhi had great rules for the courtnbsp; In this way, mobilizing local enthusiasm for road construction can also increase the court's treasury expenditure.

    Because everyone knows the benefits of building cement kilometers, in this matter, wherever cement roads go, enthusiasm for construction is very high, and a large number of people actively participate in the construction of cement roads.

    The construction of cement highways also adopts the method of segmented construction. According to the plan, construction is started in various places at the same time and finally merged together.

    The advantage of this is that the cement highway can be built as quickly as possible. The disadvantage is that the demand for cement will be very large in a short period of time, so that the cement in the Beijing-Tianjin area begins to be tight again.  Production cannot keep up, and the price of cement continues to rise.

    "Cement is really a good thing. With it, the chasm in the sky becomes a smooth road~"

    Standing on a hillside, Emperor Hongzhi looked at the heated scene with a telescope, and he couldn't help but sigh.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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